Cancellations and other weather-related schedule changes

Worcester City Council
The Worcester City Council meeting Tuesday night has been canceled. City Clerk David J. Rushford said in an email about 4:15 p.m. that the mayor decided to err on the side of caution, because of slippery roads and sidewalks, and cancel the meeting.

Schools
Worcester and several other communities have no school Tuesday.

Tantasqua school budget hearing
The Tantasqua Regional School Committee's public hearing on the proposed fiscal 2014 budget and the school committee's monthly meeting have been postponed from Tuesday.

The public hearing will be held at 6 p.m. March 27, followed by the school committee's meeting at 7 p.m. Both meetings will be held in the library at the Tantasqua Regional Junior High School, 320B Brookfield Road, in the Fiskdale section of Sturbridge.

Dudley
Town Hall opens at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

Worcester County Courthouse
Court is open Tuesday.

MCAS English tests postponed
Students in Grades 4, 7 and 10 who were scheduled to take the English language arts composition MCAS test Tuesday will have to wait until March 25, because of the impending storm. The state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education is postponing the composition test for all schools, the state announced Monday. The postponement will apply whether a school is open Tuesday or not.

Schools that are open may, however, give any MCAS reading comprehension test sessions scheduled for that day.

While schools are given windows of time to administer some parts of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System tests, other parts, such as the composition, are given to everyone on the same day for security reasons.

Westboro Planning Board
The Planning Board's meeting tonight has been canceled. The next meeting will be April 2.